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Definition of Houris
1. houri [n] - See also: houri
Lexicographical Neighbors of Houris
| hour hands houri houris (current term) hourlies hourlong hourly hourly worker hours hourslong hourwise | housage housages housane house house-breaker house-breakers house-broken |
Literary usage of Houris
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Extracts from the Council Register of the Burgh of Aberdeen by Aberdeen (Scotland), Aberdeen (Grampian), John Stuart (1871)
"... at four houris in the morning, and aught houris at nicht; evin and and Johne
Pollak, as the yonger man, ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1831)
"houris ; virgins who, in Mohammed's paradise, are one of the rewards of the blest
According to the description of the Koran, they surpass, in their dazzling ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"They appear as houris floating about the earth in silk balloons, with a ballasting
of anklets, necklaces, earrings, and jewellery. ..."
4. The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland by Scotland Privy Council (1904)
"... was dune within the speace off tua houris. Farther deponit be William Eoy,
elder, that the said William ..."
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